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Communityamerica Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| KANSAS CITY KANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEG | $50,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KANSAS | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHARITABLE GIVING UNDER THRESHOLD | $1,895 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
20 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
CITY YEAR INC5× · 2018–2022 · $500k · revenue +8%
VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT5× · 2018–2022 · $285k · revenue +383%- LKLITERACY KANSAS CITY4× · 2018–2021 · $86k · revenue +143%
Funded once
- KCKansas City Kansas Ciommunity Colleone grant, 2024 · $65k
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INCone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue -21%
- CSCommunity Services League of Jackson Countygraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +91%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.
Addressing the causes and effects of poverty by uniting staff, individuals, families, and community partners to provide quality, comprehensive services through compassionate, respectful relationships.
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
The mission of great jobs kc is to provide access to college scholarships and tuition-free job training along with job placement assistance to secure family-sustaining jobs for low- to modest-income individuals in the kansas city area.
Kacap supports community action agencies and other human services organizations in thier local, state and national efforts to end poverty.
Kansas farm bureau exists to strengthen agriculture and the lives of kansans through advocacy, education, and service.
To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.
The full employment council is a business-led, private, nonprofit corporation whose mission is to obtain public and private sector employment for the unemployed and underemployed residents of the greater kansas city area.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Our mission is to create an environment where all citizens can live safely and have access to real opportunities.
To provide a world-class neighborhood school whose students excel in a culture of academic rigor, character development, and caring relationships.
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 90 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Community Services League of Jackson County ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WE ↗
- Who funds TURN THE PAGE KC INC ↗
- Who funds LEAD TO READ INC ↗
- Who funds SHEFFIELD PLACE ↗
- Who funds THE PHOENIX FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMENS EMPLOYMENT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · Hallmark Corporate Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Umb Financial Corporation Charitable · Truman Heartland Community Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Communityamerica Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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